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Au contraire, I am looking for perfection! I already have it in DB form.

Come what may, I am having a pair of orange or red dungarees!

But.....but......but.......power tools!

Would it be bad to use an angle grinder? I mean, how hard can it be? He makes it look easy peasy.

I hate it when that happens!

My tame luthier student went and tapped all the polepieces with a allen key and there was equal volume across everything so I gave skater student a spare E string and we shall see what happens. Thanks all..

Wow, they have not got any cheaper

I still miss my Korg G5.

Not wanting to de-rail, but EXCITING TIMES!

This looks like the kind of manual I might actually read. This is not normal for me. Good job.

I have a student who was carrying his bass on his back while skateboarding. He fell off. I have mentioned that this was not his finest hour. However the upshot of the fall was that the neck pickup (J type instrument) was pushed down on the E string side. He has lifted it again but strangely the E is now quieter than G D and A on both neck and bridge pickups - solo-ed and together. The instrument is passive. Can anyone suggest any fixes? TIA.

The plans? Possibly. But I cannot guarantee that. Have you noticed the thread title?

Again, thanks everyone for humouring me I have bought special long paper and a presentation board to tape it onto. I have a 3B pencil and a rubber. I am almost certain I have a long straight edge in the garage. I am on fire!

If I am going super curved I will need an extra thick body blank, no? I was going with sonic blue but realised that might well need a whte-ish scratchplate to offset it. I am thinking maybe copper leaf cos ....... umm.......... shiny.

I resemble that remark.

I think I am over the lathe thing (even though it was exciting), but I could make a bowl will a flat bottom which only curved at the extreme edges.

They have some pretty accurate readings of what is happening in the UK at the moment, but that would be de-railing my own thread!

The lathe option would give a certain line which there is no way I could get with hand tools, but the by PM and various posts I am beginning to think the hand tool thing might be a go-er. Thanks everyone for their willingness to guide. I am going to buy some really big paper.

Andy, you are on the money right there!

Thanks. Would doing the turning and then putting it through a large thicknesser do the bridge end to neck end? Whether such a thicknesser exists, I don't know.

Rats, you have pointed out the obvious flaw in my plan. And now you have pointed it out (thanks. No, really!) it changes what is happening in my mind. Back to the drawing board.

Thanks everyone for your encoursgement. It will be your fault. I am thinking about getting a piece of scrap wood, having it turned and then seeing if I can wrestle it into shape. It will be 310mm at it's longest by 280mm at it's widest. How deep do I need to leave it for neck pocket, pickups and control cavity?

Ver, ver shmooooth.